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The division winners are seeded first and second in their conference, based on their regular season record.

All playoff rounds are played as best-of-seven series. In each round, the top seeded remaining team is paired with the lowest seeded team etc.

In the —13 season, the Nadezhda Cup Cup of Hope was introduced, a consolation tournament for the teams who did not qualify for the playoffs. The tournament is intended to extend the season and help maintain interest in hockey in the cities of these teams, and help players of national teams prepare for upcoming World Championships.

See the respective team articles for more information. Though now not as restrictive in maintaining an exclusively Russian composition of players and teams, Russian teams are still not allowed to sign more than five foreign players, while non-Russian teams must have at least five players from their respective country.

Foreign goaltenders on Russian teams have a limit regarding total seasonal ice time. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to three NHL players to its roster, among them at most one foreign player.

During the current season, players representing 16 nations have played at least one game in the KHL. For the table presented below, the nationality "is determined based on the last country that the player represented in international competition.

If a player has never played for a national team, usually the country of birth is chosen as the player nationality, unless there is strong evidence indicating otherwise".

Therefore, a list of players born in Ukraine gives case-by-case details for some of those players. In some cases, players can change their nationality registration with the league on a year-by-year basis, and their nationality with the league may not match that of their International Ice Hockey Federation registration.

In —16, more than players played in the league see table below. The winner of the playoff is awarded the Gagarin Cup. The highest placed Russian team is awarded the title of the Russian champion.

The team ranked first in the standings after the regular season, i. Кубок Континента, Kubok Kontinenta. The KHL presents annual awards to its most successful players.

The KHL also awards the Opening Cup annually to the winner of the first game between the Gagarin Cup winner and the runner-up of the previous season.

On September 10, , three days after the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash , the KHL head office decided to honor the deceased in the Opening Cup.

In the first season , Salavat Yulaev Ufa was the winner of the regular season, but the Continental Cup was not yet awarded.

Since its foundation in , 35 different clubs have played in the KHL, and 32 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs.

Of the 24 founding teams, only Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Khimik Voskresensk had never qualified for the playoffs both are no longer in the league.

The table gives the final regular-season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their best championship results.

Did not participate in the —12 season due to the deadly air disaster on September 7, , that killed the entire team. Total and average attendance in seasons, including play-off.

Previously played Russian players versus the "rest of the world", now it is Eastern versus Western Conference.

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